[CHARLES DICKENS INTEREST] A VICTORIAN SILVER BALUSTER CREAM JUG BY JOHN SAMUEL HUNTLONDON 1849Stamped for Hunt & Roskell as retailers, with a leaf-and-flower-capped S-scroll handle, chased with a cartouche, scrolls, flowers and trellis in multiple panels, on three scroll feet, the interior gilt, later engraved 'Gad's Hill Place 1862', 14.5cm (5 3/4in) high, 290g (9.3 oz)Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gad's Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens, the most successful British author of the Victorian era. He bought it in 1856 and lived there until his death in 1870. Much of the contents of the house were auctioned off after his death.